What is Vote4Cycling?1. A community petition to show broad support of cycling issues and demonstrate the level of community interest to politicians. You can show your support by clicking the “Count me in!” button on the Vote4Cycling website.

2. A proposal called The National Partnership Proposal which was formed by experts and which the Government can implement to improve the viability of cycling in the community and reap the associated benefits.

3. A platform for candidates in the 2013 Australian Federal Election to publish their policy statement or proposed initiatives related to cycling and alternative transport. The community can see what each candidate stands for.

Further details in the article - well worth getting behind to help make a difference.

Given that people can save the government $1.43 per kilometre travelled by cycling instead of driving, the logical extension of this is that motorists cost the government $1.43 with every km travelled, no?

Stay with me here, I'm a "numbers man," and am easily excited by this stuff...

So if the average motorist travels 20,000km per year, they cost the government $28,600.

Now, I would think that their figure of $1.43 has accounted for the collection of excise, GST and rego, but for the sake of this exercise, let's subtract these costs.

So $28,600 less $3,700 = net cost to government of $24,900 or $1.24 per km.

Taking this figure and using the fuel consumption listed above, the excise collected on fuel would need to be $8.27 per litre higher than it currently is for the government to break even on motorists.

If they wanted to be equal to a cyclist who rides 3,000km per year (i.e. providing a $4,290 benefit to the government), the excise collected on fuel would actually need to be $9.73 per litre higher than it currently is.

I wonder if Mr. Abbott will keep his word about going to a double dissolution to get rid of the "carbon tax"?I doubt it - it would be a risky tactic. He would have more to loose than gain. Interesting times!